SpotLight on Success

SpotLight on Success

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  • SpotLight on Healing With ART, Bipolar & Mental Health Disorders - Amanda Doane
    Bipolar and other mental health disorders are stigmaitzed in the workplace, in the family and in society in general. Out goal at Healing in the SpotLight will focus on all the phases of bipolar and mental health disorders. In the episode we discuss this with Amanda Doane who lives in Upstate NY with her mom. This episode focuses on the discover phase. The moment in time when Amanda discovers she has bipolar. We continue to explore people with Bipolar and Mental Health Disorders for Healing-With-ART.org. 
    Communication, Education & Transportaion - One of the primary things we noticed is that when we started openly discussing her disorder that we found MANY more people with bipolar than we ever knew. Workmates, friends, and family have talked with us about another friend or family member with bipolar. Unfortunately, many people with bipolar suffer in silence, never seek help and die. This is a new era and we have to ATTACK the disorder by simply communicating more about it. In our first year, we will visit a new city, school or other nonprofits biweekly, to simply talk about the disorder. We will use discreet website forms, forums, and social media to keep our communications 24x7x365.  We will create a club and support methods. 
    Education is a subset of Communication. We will have free online support meetings and Q&A's weekly. Healing With A.R.T. will hold a symposium/event at both Utica and Syracuse area auditoriums about mental health.   One per year to start. We will have a huge event like Relay For Life. We have family members who were high-level managers and PR people at Relay For Life whom we will invite to help manage the event.    We will have vendors, private meeting rooms, counselors, doctors, wellness & day spas, massage chairs, massage therapists, etc.
    31 min
  • Nano-Gate Heats Up on Keeler in the Morning
    Bill Keeler was being quite forthwith talking to Joe Griffo, Anthony Picente and some other local politicians on WIBX 950 this morning here in Upstate New York. Some of these guys are pretty reasonable politicians and I have followed many of them for many years. Now they have gone off the frigging tracks. They called the citizens of the Mohawk Valley some pretty aggressive and insulting names and also threw Cuomo under the bus. They did so very casually because they fear his wrath and his fortune. Listen to the show for more. 
    I leave you today with this quote from the Declaration of Independence...  "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
    13 min
  • Dr. Nano, Crooked Cuomo & NanoGate - Who Knew What and WHEN! SUNY Implicated?
    "Pals of Governor Cuomo, arrested with several large Cuomo donors" [Source] --- Also visit RobThrasher.com & Henna by ART.  JUST UPDATED: AMS Pulls out of Nano SUNY in Utica!  :(  
    Is this the future of nanotech in New York? False promises of new jobs in a, not so new, industry? Billions of tax payer dollars have given to SUNY and corrupt builders to create educational programs to further enrich and empower SUNY. Not to mention the fact that SUNY is also a "division" of the Governor and the Government of NY State. My biggest question is who knew WHAT and WHEN? Who within the SUNY system knew how corrupt the whole NanoGate is and how far it spread?
    16 min
  • SpotLight on Successful Executive Brenda Episcopo
    Brenda Episcopo, CEO, Executive Director: United Way of the Valley and Greater Utica Area
    United Way of the Valley and Greater Utica Area is an independent, locally governed United Way non-profit organization that has been serving the people of the Mohawk Valley since 1921.  The mission is to mobilize the caring power of the Valley & Greater Utica Area by connecting people, resources and ideas to create a thriving community.
    Accomplishments:
    - Achieved Better Business Bureau Triple Gold Standard 
    - Selected for Executive Leadership Development Program, representing the top 12% of United Way Leaders from around the world.
    - Increased volunteerism by 128% 
    - Increased yearly amount raised for the first time in six years; thereby maximizing community impact. 
    - Established agency compliance with the New York State Non-Profit Revitalization Act.
    30 min
  • Spotlight on Deborah Hodge.
    I don't understand most of what Deborah texted me, so I can only imagine I will need an interpreter while she is on the show. We will talk about her article about success, my upcoming article which states that Donald Trump, Ellen, Winston Churchhill all agree about what makes people successful. They just didn't know they all agreed. Feb and I will probably spend more time making fun of each other than talking about success traits. Tune in, it'll be a hootinany. I have no idea of that is spelled right!!?
    25 min
  • Nanotech Real Estate USA - From Utica to Albany, Going West
    Yesterday, April 4th, 2016, WIBX & Keeler in the Morning had guests Senator Joseph Griffo and Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi. They made the case quite convincingly that nanotech was indeed on the way, but it would still take more time. In this fifteen minutes we discuss this and other news pertaining to nanotech Utica NY, Albany NY and more! 
    History: The Utica-Rome area has endured a continual flow of negative news. The U.S. Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission in 1993 dealt a big blow to the area and Utica-Rome never seemed to bounce back. Unfortunately, this kind of constant negative feedback starts to breed an overall sense of negativity and citizens of the area needed a break. Well, there have been a series of unprecedented positive news events recently, indicating that Utica might be experiencing a resurgence.  
    Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced on October 10th, 2013 that six leading global technology companies will invest $1.5 billion to create ‘Nano Utica,’ the state’s second major hub of nanotechnology research and development. The consortium, according to the October 10th announcement, of leading global technology companies that will create Nano Utica are led by Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions Incorporated (ANSI), SEMATECH, Atotech, and SEMATECH and CNSE partner companies, including IBM, Lam Research and Tokyo Electron. The consortium will be headquartered at the CNSE-SUNYIT Computer Chip Commercialization Center.
    Good news about businesses opening, Nano Utica, a new entrepreneurial incubator called  thINCubator, which I reported last month, and what seems to be a new sense of team-work in the area seem to indicate a bounce-back. According to New York State Assemblyman Anthony J. Brindisi, from the 119th district, the Nano Utica project was, “...a bipartisan team effort...”
    30 min
  • SpotLight on Sunjay Nath - Engineer Turned Entrepreneur
    Sunjay Nath travels globally sharing insights on leadership and performance. He is best known for his trademark, “The 10-80-10 Principle” which is a framework that helps individuals and teams improve performance. This methodology combines best practices with small wins to help people empower themselves.
    Sunjay was a founding Vice President of an e-learning company based in Toronto that has gone on to become a multimillion-dollar company. Prior to that position he worked as an engineer for a distribution company in New York. 
    He started an international speaking business when he was 19; he wasn’t even old enough to rent a car. This was particularly problematic when he would travel. As a speaker, Sunjay has travelled extensively and addressed in person well over 1,000,000 people around the world since 1995. Learn More
    26 min
  • SpotlLight on Johnathon Banks, Boxer and Trainer for Wladimir Klitschko
    ​​Our conversation with Johnathon Banks who trains Wladimir Klitschko. Wladimir Klitschko fights 
    2012 - Banks stopped undefeated top contender Seth Mitchell, 25-1-1 (19KO’s), on Saturday, November 17, 2012 in the second round at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on HBO World Championship Boxing.
    Dropping Mitchell three times in the second round, referee Eddie Cotton called a halt to the destruction at the 2:37 mark of the second stanza.
    Wrote ESPN’s Dan Rafael, “Maybe some things are just meant to be. The script couldn’t have been better written for Banks in his major upset if a screenwriter had taken on the task.
    He was supposed to fight Mitchell in July, but the fight was postponed when Mitchell suffered a hand injury in his exciting third-round knockout win against Chazz Witherspoon in April and couldn’t be ready in time.
    It was around the time that the​ fight was postponed that the late Emanuel Steward, the Hall of Fame trainer and HBO announcer, first became ill.
    Steward had taken Banks under his wing when he was a 15-year-old amateur. Banks learned to box from Steward, spent time living with him and considered him a father figure. When Steward died in late October, his No. 1 fighter, heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, needed a trainer for his Sept. 10 title defense against Mariusz Wach and he turned to Banks, who had been in Klitschko’s training camps for years with Steward.”
    “So Banks was training Klitschko for his eventual win against Wach at the same time that he was preparing to fight Mitchell. While in Klitschko’s camp in Austria, Banks, 30, of Detroit, was doing four training sessions ...
    30 min
  • SpotLight on Dan Evertsz, Owner-Operator of CollegeMoneypros.com
    A College Money Pros Certified Advisor can help make a college education an affordable reality. A Bay Area College Planning Specialists Certified Advisor also has the expertise to help you develop the best plan possible and make the best financial choices for you and your family. CMP's offer a comprehensive approach to college planning and student counseling. Our staff are highly experienced with all areas of college life, college financing, and the many obstacles that often hinder those new to the process involved with a college education. See the planner checklist here.
    31 min

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